The proposal for the Wikimedia Movement to take on a travel site continues to develop. The site WikiVoyage www.wikivoyage.com at their last board meeting has agreed in principle to join a WMF run site. This will mean that the WM movement has the potential ability to bring two communities of editors back together, those of WikiVoyage and those of Wikitravel.
The full proposal is here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide which we hope to present to the WMF board the day before Wikimania in Washington. The outcome of the boards decision will than be announced at Wikimania. We are also planning on having an informal get together of all those interested in travel content during lunch on July 12th at Wikimania (13:00 to 14:00).
the address is http://www.wikivoyage.org/
what is the difference to wikitravel.org? well it is in german and italian, and missing information on places that are in the wikitravel.
For the würzburg article it seems pretty good at first glance it seems better
http://www.wikivoyage.org/de/W%C3%BCrzburg compared to http://wikitravel.org/de/W%C3%BCrzburg
mike
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:53 AM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
The proposal for the Wikimedia Movement to take on a travel site continues to develop. The site WikiVoyage www.wikivoyage.com at their last board meeting has agreed in principle to join a WMF run site. This will mean that the WM movement has the potential ability to bring two communities of editors back together, those of WikiVoyage and those of Wikitravel.
The full proposal is here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guide which we hope to present to the WMF board the day before Wikimania in Washington. The outcome of the boards decision will than be announced at Wikimania. We are also planning on having an informal get together of all those interested in travel content during lunch on July 12th at Wikimania (13:00 to 14:00).
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On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:53 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
The full proposal is here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guidewhich we hope to present to the WMF board the day before Wikimania in Washington. The outcome of the boards decision will than be announced at Wikimania.
Considering how long board resolution discussions generally take, that seems like a fast turn-around to decision, to say the least. Is the decision predetermined?
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Keegan Peterzell keegan.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 7:53 PM, James Heilman jmh649@gmail.com wrote:
The full proposal is here http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Travel_Guidewhich we hope to present to the WMF board the day before Wikimania in Washington. The outcome of the boards decision will than be announced at Wikimania.
Considering how long board resolution discussions generally take, that seems like a fast turn-around to decision, to say the least. Is the decision predetermined?
Resolution votes should take no more than three weeks if a resolution is proposed and seconded; less for routine or urgent decisions. Decisions at an in-person board meeting may be taken immediately, particularly if the text of the motion considered was available a week in advance for review.
[So, note to readers: if you want some topic brought before the board for a vote, convince two Trustees to propose and second the text of a resolution, and you will have an outcome within a few weeks.]
The Board has been following the public discussion on Meta for the past month, and will have had time before Wikimania to follow any input resulting from this more public announcement of the proposal.
No decision has been made; though we discussed internally whether the idea had at least the potential to be in scope (if the answer had been "no", we would have dissuaded the proponents from trying to organize a broad public discussion).
SJ
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:25 AM, Samuel Klein meta.sj@gmail.com wrote:
The Board has been following the public discussion on Meta for the past month, and will have had time before Wikimania to follow any input resulting from this more public announcement of the proposal.
No decision has been made; though we discussed internally whether the idea had at least the potential to be in scope (if the answer had been "no", we would have dissuaded the proponents from trying to organize a broad public discussion).
SJ
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Thank you for the prompt reply, SJ. I hadn't seen any note of how seriously the Board had been observing and discussing the idea, so it's good to know this is an opportunity for the projects to convince the Board. This will be interesting.
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